[Regnum] The American authorities “have reached a new level”: having introduced yet another round of sanctions against Russian media, they were unable to voice the measures they had taken, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on September 5 on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum.
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“They have outdone themselves, because, unlike previous attacks on Russian journalists and editors-in-chief of media corporations, this time something amazing happened: even the American authorities were unable to fully announce the measures that were taken,” Zakharova said.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the US imposed sanctions on the RT TV channel and its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan on September 4. Sanctions were also imposed on RIA Novosti, Sputnik and the Rossiya Segodnya media group. The basis for the sanctions was alleged interference in the US presidential elections.
The US Justice Department also charged two RT employees with conspiracy to launder money and violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act by allegedly working with US online commentators and internet personalities to disseminate information to US audiences.
Commenting on the introduction of new sanctions against Russian media, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov stated that the American authorities are trying to shift responsibility for their own mistakes made during the electoral struggle onto Moscow.